Miracle at St. Anna Quotes

“To not take sides was to take sides.”
― James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna

“By age twenty, her marriage prospects were dim. By thirty-five, they were hopeless. She seemed nonplussed, however,”
― James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna

“The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.”
― James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna

“sophisticated young women who worked in the cosmetics department at Lerner’s, smelling”
― James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna

“Train held up the head of the statue, the priceless Primavera of Florence, the seventeenth-century prize created by the Great Frenchman Pierre Tranqueville, which he'd found in the gutter next to the Arno and couldn't unload for fifty dollars. In the dim light of the barn loft, the dirty piece of marble looked like a piece of whitened shit.”
― James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna

“Italians, he concluded, didn’t want their share of the cut for being white. They seemed not to care. They were looking to get to the next day. No wonder their music was so good, he thought, all that yelling and passion, all that opera. They got it, he thought. They understood it. Love. Food. Passion. Life’s short. Pass me a cigarette. Gimme that grappa.”
― James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna